Setting API properties
In addition to the pre-supplied API properties that you can use to control the behavior of API Connect policies, you can define your own API properties. The properties that you define can be referenced in your API definitions.
About this task
You can complete this task either by using either the API Designer UI application, or by using the browser based API Manager UI.
For information on how to reference a property in an API definition, see Variable references in API Connect.
It is also possible to define properties that are specific to a Catalog and can be referenced by any of the APIs in that Catalog; for more information, see Creating and configuring Catalogs. Note that if you define a Catalog property of the same name as an API property, the API property takes precedence over the Catalog property.
Procedure
To set API properties, complete the following steps: